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Watch this for me, will you?

Mark Pritchard — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 01:31:56 +0000

On Alabama Street near Cesar Chavez.

The bay this morning

Mark Pritchard — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:23:26 +0000

Off Oyster Point near South San Francisco. No traffic jams, no storms, no Twitter.

Hardly Strictly Bike Parking

Richard Ault — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:08:15 +0000

It was great to see the SFBC’s valet service packed to capacity sat and sun at HSB. Even greater to see so many people riding in to the event. Check out the ad hoc parking at the entrance off JFK. It’ll be a great day when this many people ride their bikes to work!

Karl Malden, a square among hipsters, dead at 97

Mark Pritchard — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:00:56 +0000

Karl Malden, who played the utterly square middle-aged detective to young Micheal Douglas’s hipper character on “The Streets of San Francisco,” is dead at age 97.

Last year there was some talk of reviving the “Streets of San Franicsco” franchise. But it’s hard to imagine it without Malden.

NASA 3D View of the San Andreas Fault!

Richard Ault — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:18:53 +0000

From Nov. last year, but posted recently as a NASA image of the day we bring you a killer 3D view of the San Andreas Fault running up the peninsula and out to see north of Pacifica. This project is about mapping which parts of the fault are creeping past each other with little “stickiness,” and which parts appear to be locked together—places where pent-up stress may be released suddenly in a major earthquake.

San Andreas Fault Satellite Imagery

To read more about NASA’s mission to map the San Andreas and related faults with radar imagery, please read Scientists Search for a Pulse in Skies Above Earthquake Country.

6th anniversary of Iraq War brings out thousands

Lil Mike — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 20:51:28 +0000

An anti-war march with at least a couple thousand diverse participants ventured up Market St this afternoon. The organizers were mostly focused on the sixth anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq, but the marchers expressed a wide variety of dissatisfaction with numerous foreign & domestic policy issues. The contingent was loud, but peaceful, if not festive at times, replete with marching band and numerous chants bandied about the slow moving crowd that stretched for a couple full blocks.

the ongoing War the US started in Iraq some six years ago was the main impetus for the demonstration.

Unlike recent splintered demonstrations in Oakland, a fairly large contingent of dozens of overtime collecting SFPD officers on foot and motorcycles seemed prepared to quell any possible property damage or disturbances from the bandana’d few who tend to ignite trash cans and engage in the more annoying and disruptive behaviors.

The march assembled near Justin Herman Plaza circa 11am and ended with a rally at Civic Center Plaza at about 1:30 , where a contingent of pro-Palestinian marchers were met with pro-Israeli occupation demonstrators stationed in front of City Hall.

Other marches took place concurrently in locations such as the Pentagon just outside of Washington DC, and in LA, while another protest is scheduled for tommorrow in Fresno.

Bringing up the rear, just behind the infamous Bay Area Women in Black, was this masked lone wolf demonstrator.

Thou Shall Not Kill My Hope

Rain in the City, Snow in Tahoe

Anna — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 19:06:34 +0000

Just sayin’. Booked my stay this morning- very excited.

Mural love

Mark Pritchard — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:25:57 +0000

Detail of mural on 13th St. and Bernice St. [map] across from Rainbow Grocery. Click the image for a Google Street View showing a wider swath of the mural.

Pics from tonights Prop 8 protest

Sean Bonner — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 04:49:50 +0000

More pics on my flickr stream and witty commentary on my twitter tweets.

Golden Gate Bridge toll goes to $6 cash Tuesday

Mark Pritchard — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 00:07:03 +0000

Tomorrow the toll to cross the Golden Gate Bridge goes to $6 cash, $5 for FasTrak. Don’t get caught short.

The Golden Gate Bridge District, which is not managed by the Calif. Dept. of Transportation or CalTrans, sets its own tolls. The fare to cross CalTrans bridges in the Bay Area, including the Bay Bridge, remains at $4.

If you’re new in town and don’t understand which bridges we mean, here are the Golden Gate and Bay Bridges. Flickr photo by user brothergrimm.